Yeah, people who have the base political viewpoint of "you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" generally don't have any interest in expending time, money, and effort in getting into a position of interfering with people's lives.

My wookie suit has been hanging in the closet for a while now. Even I couldn't bring myself to run for office. I'd hate begging people for the money, and I'd really be creeped out by a bunch of people at a rally cheering my name.

When you think about what you have to do to run and win office, it's quite likely that anyone who wants the office that bad probably isn't fit to serve in it.

One of these days I'd like to see a country that handles serving on the legislature like jury duty. Sometimes I think picking names out of a phone book wouldn't work any worse, and may actually work better.

Just think of it as a process for human species survival. The one's who want to be left alone are swamped by the ones who want you as a slave. The result is the former leaving the place where the graspers are and going someplace horrible. Then they make that place nice and the graspers follow. Repeat rinse repeat.

Just a couple of hours ago, I left a comment on Sebastian's blog somewhere about a "House of Repeal". I didn't know that Heinlein suggested the same idea somewhere! I'm not completely surprised, though.

About a year ago, I read some of Alex Panshin's experiences with Heinlein. I concluded that I need to read more of his works...and this only reminds me of that!